Category Archives: OCD Stories

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Life is never what you think, behind closed doors, doing things many hours a day, the feeling that you could lose control again at any minute. The way my life goes one minute all is great and the next all is scary, horrible and time consuming. This is the life of OCD the way it makes you feel, the anxiety it causes and the way we are. I was Diagnosed with OCD at age 12, … The Story Continues…

Hi all. I’m 28 years old, happily married with 2 beautiful boys. My obsessions are many, but my most recurring, and most terrifying, is the one about my husband dying in a car accident. He has a very long commute, an hour there and anywhere from an hour and a half to two hours + back, depending on the traffic. Pure agony. He’s driving back from work as I type this, and I’m checking the … The Story Continues…

I have read some of your very harrowing stories about identifying OCD, treating and coping strategies. My Story is not of me, but my husband, I’ll try to explain myself best I can. When I met him 3 years ago, he told me he use to get very dry skin on his hands and that was caused by keeping them in water all the time, he told me at the time, this was from his … The Story Continues…

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

by William Congreve

The OCD Stories

As OCD is rarely limited to one specific type in one individual it is difficult to place the stories in one category. I have tried to place them in the categories below, by what appears to be the primary category.

Most stories end up in the Pure O category. This is the category for Intrusive thoughts and ruminating. Or obsessions without a clear external compulsion